ORBS is shutdown. Guess
it got
too popular for Big
Business to bare.
Read more here
and here.
ORBS will be lost by us and many other postmaster since use
it's
services was very effective to lessen the amount of spam
entering
our MTAs. Now we have one back to the more conservative and
less
efficient MAPS RSS.
I submitted to slashdot, but these days of corporate control
/. only seems interested in toys and SF-like dreams.

Cars

Bought a BMW 525 Xi Touring, not new but new enough.
Picking it
up on friday. My old Pickup will NOT be missed :-)

About to move later this summer, leaving Kiruna for Luleå.
Feels pretty OK and it is only 350 km between the towns
so I could be "home" in 3 hours.

Sweden just lost to Czeck republic in the icehockey
world championships.
It was still 2-2 after 10 minutes of sudden death, so
it was decided by penalty shots. This means Czecklands
vs Finland in the final, because Finland shouldn't have
any trouble beating USA.

This is posted with Galeon
(CVS-version) with Mozilla
0.9-engine. Still a little bit slower then Netscape 4.77
but it is getting there. One of my internet banks still does
not work with Galeon, so I might not switch yet.

Uploaded another
IMPearl
snapshot. Now messages are encrypted, a good base for
experimenting. Check it out.

Car trouble!
Still it something mysterious happening in the electrical
system
and the motor does NOT run smoothly until it is warm.
Unreliability in the car situation and my friend being away
from town (with her dauther and car) kept me in town these
past
sunny days. :-(

Car trouble,
have had some strange electical problems
and yesterday the battery finally kicked it.
Trouble was I could not get to a petrol station
to buy a new one because I had no battery. :-(

So I got stuck in town instead of going to my
cottage. Skiing in the forest beats a walk around
town, specially on sunny days. Will give a new try
today. Really needs to get to the cottage and my
sauna, my body starts itching due to lack of sauna
for almost a week.

Hacked some more on
impearl it's taking shape. Going to restructure some
thing and
release a 0.0.2-version.

I hate designing GUIs. I could use some help in this area.
So if you are fluent in Gtk-Perl and like to help out send
me (goran at kirra dot net) a note.

Slow saturday, weather is very nice, but I feel too tired,
so I have been inside most of the day, what a waste.

Read a python tuturial. Nice language, but perhaps I'm to
much old sysadm to think of using python instead of perl for
my daily tasks.
The root of the languages (perl from linguistics and python
from CS)
shines through. In my world of quick-hacks, ease of
expression is more important than syntactical purity.

One of my car was destroyed in an traffic incident,
not my fault, no injuries on any person. The insurance
company of the other driver bought my car since it was
cheaper for them then the repairs would have been.

Have to hunt for a new car, since I don't want to drive
my old Nissan pickup all the time.

Life

Slowly getting back to normal after being on the
road for 17 weeks. Many things to sort out, still.

Have been working a week at homebase and a week in
Göteborg. During the break I came to realise being
irritated
at the work situation only hurts the relations I hold
dearest
more than the actual "being away". Relating to a whining
jerk
during weekends is nothing to look forward to, so I am
trying
to change my ways.

Have also started fullfilling my new-years-resolutions:

start brushing up my spanish

start smoking (a little)

a bit strange if you don't know it is preparations for a
trip to Cuba I will make sometime (hopefully) during this
year.